erms              - refers to rapier-like foreteeth of the asura's.' entcir

The Lord churned theocean with the sparkling mandara mountain as churning stick, and the shiny serpentVasum as rope, in order to quell the asura' race equipped with a fierce figh’ting force armed to the teeth - He Who snapped the tusks of the rogue elephant in another age.

In this pasuram, Azhwar describes the unbelievable feat of the Lord, Who single-handedly made the supreme exertion of churning the ocean to fulfil the desire of the emasculated deva's for 'amrit' to be able to prevail over their asura' adversaries who had repeatedly outfought and subjugated them. Azhwar has used the word sirsir',in a manifold sense.

- refers to the asura' army wielding sword as their battle- weapon.

arch       - stands for the sheen of the mandara mountain.' on& mé - describes the shiny skin of Va'suki.

Since the deva's were a hopelessly debilitated race, and both they and the asura's were unequal to the task of churning the ocean, the Lord accomplished the feat by His sole exertion. ' C nmsi› J&  n› er, ( H — H 5-7-4 ).

 

Cont grnié 6iairñq @JlJQ Cor— Lord Who effortlessly snapped the tusks of the powerful tusker Kuvalaya’peeta, despatched by Kamsa' to kill Sri Krishna. The term ' J fmn refers to serpent Vasuki, in the usage, ' Jgr n ', and the elephant in the usage,

 

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They who have become royal highnesses and rule over this earth, riding their highhorses before our eyes, are what they are, because they were devotees in their several preceding births who placed cool lotuses at the exalted Feet of the Lord Who has a navel adorned by a red lotus flower.

Azhwar observes in this pasuram that the kings who rule this earth, forever extending their domain ensconced in the saddle of the horses they ride, owe their present prosperity to the fact that in their several preceding births in this world, they had been ardent devotees wedded to the sacred Feet of Narayana.

 

Jim nut - Sriman Narayana from Whose navel springs a red lotus.

 

 

ppJeo g;nms qAni .' ( 6luJm euJgn — 72 ). As Swami Nammazhwar has sung in the above pasuram, the lotus flower adorning the navel of Sriman Narayana, distinguishes Him as the primordial fountainhead of all creation, among the Trinity, comprising Him, Brahma, who sprang from the lotus on Narayana's navel, and Rudra who was created by Brahma.

 

 

in .ef j§ gc¥.éQur{g.uy Q. o& - - g.o{ge?@a

 

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